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hryanjones / guess-my-word

A word guessing game, where you only know whether my word is before or after your guess. (An unofficial clone of the game previously available on simbase.org)
https://hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/
MIT License
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People who get the right answer with their first guess not labelled as lucky #35

Closed leahrickard closed 3 years ago

leahrickard commented 4 years ago

Thank you for Guess My Word, I enjoy the daily challenge!

I've noticed that sometimes people aren't labelled as lucky when they got the word on their first guess. This seems like a bug to me.

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hryanjones commented 4 years ago

People are only currently labelled as lucky when they haven't played enough to be on the long term board and their number of guesses is less than 5 (or 6, can't remember exact cutoff). There was someone who had a streak of playing going for a long time and didn't like that he had been lucky once and couldn't submit, which is why I started allowing submissions of 1 guess.

However, it looks like a fair number of people are abusing this, what about this logic: if someone gets it in 1, for them it'll show that they're on top of the board, but for everybody else it'll show that they're lucky?

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Thank you for Guess My Word, I enjoy the daily challenge!

I've noticed that sometimes people aren't labelled as lucky when they got the word on their first guess. This seems like a bug to me.

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leahrickard commented 4 years ago

I was wondering what the criteria were, thanks for that!

Your solution sounds reasonable. I guess otherwise, whatever you had the cutoff as, someone could work it out and abuse it.

hryanjones commented 3 years ago

Okay, finally got the time to add in the new logic. This type of abuse should show up a lot less, but feel free to reopen if you started seeing it again.